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Mohamed Bana fondly remembers life before his home, Blue Nile State, erupted in violence.
“During the harvest season, our village would come to life,” he says. “We used to work hard in the fields and cultivate various crops and vegetables. I used to have a small flock of sheep and goats...

The UN and its humanitarian partners have launched an appeal for US$16.4 billion to help at least 57.5 million people affected by crises in 22 countries in 2015.
“Over 80 percent of those we intend to help are in countries mired in conflict where brutality and violence have had a devastating...

Before severe fighting broke out between Government forces and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) in April 2013, some 150,000 people lived in the Abu Kershola locality of Sudan’s South Kordofan state.
The fighting saw most people seek refuge in neighbouring North Kordofan....

The first thing you notice when you arrive in Azerni is the silence. Village life in West Darfur is usually accompanied by the incessant rumbling of motorized water pumps. At first, the explanation for the silence seems obvious: the pump must be broken.
But, on closer inspection, women are still chatting...

Abdullah Adan Abubakr, a resident of the Krinding 2 camp in West Darfur and head of the camp’s food-relief committee, carefully measures quantities of sugar, sorghum and pulses. He knows how precious every kora (a measurement used in West Darfur) is to each displaced family.
“The quantity of...